She snorts. "I don't mean anything by it. I just, you know, have eyes. Especially lately."

Lucky you. Let me know how that goes, hmm?

"Anyway if you were hoping for your cousins to have made a negative impression it seems you're going to be drastically disappointed; apparently Celegorm's been telling her to eat enough and get enough sleep and she thinks he's the bee's knees. I can ask her what wacky scheme she has in mind for bringing back your uncle, if you want."

"I'd appreciate that, yes."

So Fingon says Maedhros implies you have a plan for resurrecting Feanor without this having terrible knock-on effects. Spill.

Bring back Feanor and the current High King's father too.

"Huh. Okay. So her plan is apparently to bring back your grandfather along with your uncle."

He raises his eyebrows. "That's better than anything I was afraid of. We'll have to talk about it but - it might work."

"I'm vaguely curious what you were afraid of."

Response: Tentatively positive!

I'm not surprised. So how was your coma?

Quite restful. I'm rather pleased about having been able to cheat magic's price so thoroughly.

Good for you.

Yeah. So, I went out and taught some people magic and healed some people--and. Um. So...a bunch of local human countries have--supposedly, I should probably check--asked to be annexed by the Elves because turnover. They, um--Fingon baaaasically offered to make me Queen of one of them because I'm not gonna die of old age and I'm human so I'd be better suited to the task. I don't know if I should take it or not.

Wow, yeah. Um. That would be awesome? But neither of us have...any kind of experience in that area.

It would involve a massive amount of delegating, that's for sure.

Illia's sister either has the power to bring back the dead or thinks she soon will, he tells his father, and is enamored of my cousins and wants to bring Fëanor back and is coming here to discuss politics with you. The current proposal is to also bring back Finwë.

Well, his father says.

Yes. I suppose we can plead with her to wait until the war is over but I'm not even sure we should, under those conditions it might work out fine. 

Better you than me, regardless.

He asked me if you were likely to be interested when I expressed reservations. I explained that you would be much too busy ascending to godhood to deal with the administrative affairs of a kingdom.

I'll talk with her, Fingolfin says heavily.

Yeah.

Resurrection is definitely and unconditionally good; he feels queasy more than afraid. But still.

My impromptu therapist had a positive reaction when I told him about the queen thing.

Ha. I'll take that under advisement. You know I'm relaying a bunch of this to Fingon but I'm really glad I learned the basket thing.

The basket thing?

How I separate private and public thoughts, she says, sending a summary of the relevant explanation and her brain-cornucopia.

No one explained this to me. Bleah. Welp, I'll have to set aside some time later on to fix that.

It didn't really come up until the gay thing.

Tyelcormo--Celegorm--it is really hard to censor my thoughts with you, continue not to use that first name please--his reaction to the gay thing was "well it's a good thing we don't have gay marriage because our marriage consists of inconstantly voluntary soul bonds and it would make it harder to have fun without accidentally gluing your soul to someone else's".

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